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GMail is just good enough It is, but only in terms of what we think of email in today's usage. I think the next step will be where you can make the messages dy
by duck 15y ago
GMail is just good enough
It is, but only in terms of what we think of email in today's usage. I think the next step will be where you can make the messages dynamic which would basically allow you to receive/deliver an interface to an app. Of course with all that power comes the issue of how to control it, but that would be an interesting problem to solve. Imagine instead of getting a notification email for an update on a Basecamp todo list, you would see the actual todo list and could manage right from your inbox.
- mgkimsal 15y agofor some reason, shades of two-way-rss hype just came flooding back from 2006.
- Agathos 15y agoI thought of 2009, when Google Wave was announced.
- icebraining 15y agoThe only reason you can't do that already is because email clients prohibit it for security reasons, and Hotmail is already experimenting with emails that allow that within a sandbox. Emails can send HTML and JS, there's nothing innovative about it. You only need to convince developers to add JavaScript sandboxes to their email clients.
- miguelos 15y agoThat's exactly what my future start-up will do! Is anyone interested in making it happen?